Wendell Castle 1932 – 2018
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WENDELL CASTLE 1932 – 2018 1961 University of Kansas, Sculpture MFA 1958 University of Kansas, Industrial Design BFA 1932 Born in Emporia, Kansas Awards 2018 Wunsch Americana Foundation Award, New York, NY 2017 Inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award, The University of Kansas, KS 2014 Smithsonian Craft Show Award, Craft Council, Washington, DC 2013 Honorary Degree from Kansas University 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Rochester Arts and Cultural Council 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award. The National Association of Schools of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award. University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, Manhattan, KS 1999 Master of the Medium, The James Renwick Alliance of The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 1994 Visionaries of the American Craft Movement, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1988 Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts 1979 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, Sculptor/Designer, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD 1973, 75, 76 National Endowment for the Arts Grant(s) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Museum and Public Collections Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA American Express, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Atlanta High Museum, Atlanta, GA Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Design Museum Ghent, Ghent, Belgium Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI DuPont Center, Orlando, FL Forbes Company, New York, NY Gannett Corporation, Washington D.C. Gilman Foundation, New York, NY Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Monroe County-Greater Rochester International Airport, Rochester, NY Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, Design Collection, New York, NY Nations Bank, Atlanta, GA Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Steinway Company, Long Island City, NY Sydney Bestoff, New Orleans, LA Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH The University of Rochester, Rochester Centennial Sculpture Park, Rochester, NY Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington D.C. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL Select Solo Exhibitions 2019 Wendell Castle: A New Vocabulary, Friedman Benda, New York, NY 2018 – 19 Wendell Castle: Shifting Vocabularies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 2018 Wendell Castle: Progressions, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS 2017 Wendell Castle: Embracing Upheaval, Friedman Benda, New York, NY 2016 Wendell Castle Imagined: A Revelation of Creative Process, Rochester Institute of Technology University Gallery, Rochester, NY 2015 - 17 Wendell Castle Remastered, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 2015 Gathering Momentum, Friedman Benda, New York, NY 2014 Wendell Castle: Unflinching Faith, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 2013 - 14 Wendell Castle: Leap of Faith, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK 2012 - 14 Wendell Castle: A New Environment, Friedman Benda, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Volumes and Voids, Barry Friedman, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms – Works from 1959-79, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Wendell Castle: Forms within Forms, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY 2011 - 12 Wendell Castle: Best Leg Forward, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, UK 2011 Wendell Castle in the 21st Century, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO 2010 Wendell Castle. Rockin’, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY 2008 Wendell Castle. New Work, Barry Friedman, Ltd. New York, NY Wendell Castle: About Time, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Wendell Castle, Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, London, UK 2005 Wendell Castle: What Pluck! Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY 2004 - 06 Wendell Castle in Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 2004 Wendell Castle: Auto Plastic, R 20th Century, New York, NY 2003 Wendell Castle: Seeing in the Dark, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2001 Wendell Castle, Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY 2000 Furniture by Wendell Castle, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI 1996 One Man EXhibit, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 1995 Works by Wendell Castle, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Art Furniture by Wendell Castle, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL One-Man Exhibit, Chang Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Wendell Castle: Cabinets 1985 – 1995, A Retrospective Exhibition, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Ambiguous ObjeCthood: New Furniture and Drawings by Wendell Castle, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Wendell Castle: Coming to Grips, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO New Work by Wendell Castle, Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 1993 Wendell Castle: Environmental Works, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY Wendell Castle: Select Early Works (1971-75), Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Angel Chairs: New Work by Wendell Castle, Peter Joseph Gallery, New York, NY 1989 - 91 Furniture of Wendell Castle. Traveling retrospective eXhibit: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 1989 Wendell Castle: New Work, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1988 Wendell Castle: A Decade 1977-1987, Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Time and Defiance of Gravity: Recent Works by Wendell Castle, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY Wendell Castle. Works in Plastic 1968-1970, 20th Century Gallery, Toronto, Canada Wendell Castle. Sculpture? Furniture? The Vanishing Line, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1985 - 86 Masterpieces of Time, The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 1985 Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH 1980 Furniture As Art II, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1969 The Furniture of Wendell Castle, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; State University of New York, Cortland, NY 1965 - 66 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY 1962 Inaugural Show, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH; Louisville Art Association, Louisville, KY; Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY; Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Select Group Exhibitions 2019 - 2020 Memphis Plastic Field, Musee des Arts Decoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux, France 2019 UConn Reads: Game of Thrones. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 2018 - 19 When Attitudes Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH Design et Merveilleux, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France 2017 - 19 Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. Traveling exhibition: Dorsky Musueum at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; Dowd Gallery at SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY; Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University, Alfred, NY; Marion Art Gallery at SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; Burke Gallery at SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY; Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Center for the Arts, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY 2017 dna10, Friedman Benda, New York, NY 2016 – 17 Wood, Revisited, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA 2016 Beyond Limits A Selling Exhibition, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK 2015 NYC Makers, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY 2012 - 13 Unicorn Family, The University of Rochester, Rochester Centennial Sculpture Park, Rochester, NY Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2011 - 12 Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY The Abstract Forms of Pablo Picasso and Wendell Castle, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle: A Selling Exhibition, Cheltenham, UK 2007 - 09 Craft in America: Expanding Traditions, Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA 2008 New Work by Wendell Castle: Works on Paper by Chuck Close, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Not Furniture: XXI Design, Hedge Gallery, San